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3 May 2006, 07:35
Mr, Diallo Alidu,
15 kolughu naba av.
Age:45years old.
Marital status: married with 4children.
Occupation: banker.
Country: Burkina Faso.
City: Ouagadougou.

I am Mr, Diallo Alidu, working at the auditing and accounting
department,
BANK OF AFRICA (B .O. A) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso West Africa with
due
respects and regard. I have decided to contact you on a business
transaction
that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the
transaction.

During an annual auditing of Account's in this bank, my department came
across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died
in a
tragic plane crash on the Lenana Peak, Mount Kenya, Saturday, the 19th
day
of July, 2003 together with his wife Jean, three of their children and
their
spouses, and four grandchildren, since then his fund has been dormant
in his
account with this Bank without any claim of the fund in our custody
either
from his family or relation before discovery to this development.

The said amount was U.S $8.2M (Eight million, two hundred thousand
United
States dollars).In fact I could have done this transaction alone but
because
of my position in the country as a civil servant (A Banker), we are not
allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eye
brow
on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank.

This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow
who
will forward claims as the next of kin with affidavits of trust of oath
to
the Bank and also present a foreign account where you will need the
money to
be transferred into on your request as it may be after due verification
and
clarification by the correspondent branch of the bank where the whole
money
will be remitted from to your own designation bank account.

I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free.
On
smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 40% of
the
total sum as gratification, while 50% will be for me, and an additional
5%
will be mapped out for you, for showing your kind and willingness to
assist
me in this transaction, also the remaining 5% will be for any expenses
such
like telephone bills which was involved in the transaction and it will
all
be deducted out from the total money when it is been transferred to
your
account over there. Please, you have been advised to keep "top secret"
as I
am still in service and intend to retire from service after I have
concluded
this transaction with you.

I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you
confirm
the money in your account and ask me to come down to your country for
subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages previously
indicated
and further investment, either in your country or any country you
advice me
to invest in. All other necessary vital information will be sent to you
when
I hear from you.

I look forward to receive your reply urgently. Show your readiness to
assist
me in this transaction by replying this proposal as early as possible.
I
will tell you how you can apply to the bank as soon as i receive your
response towards this mail.

Extend my greetings to your family and you should please try and have
trust
on me in this transaction so that we shall achieve our aim together.

Do not take this very transaction as a joke, I am betting you right now
that
this is just nothing but reality, so you reply and ask me how you can
apply
for the text of application form of claim of the deceased fund from
the
bank. It is the foreign remittance departments that are responsible for
transference of fund into your account over there.

Thanks from,
Mr, Diallo Alidu.

Aeval
3 May 2006, 07:55
Welcome to FraudWatchers!

The email that you posted is a classic example of a Nigerian scam, that's been in circulation for at least a few years.

Why is it a scam?

1. Although you did not post the email address that this email was sent from, I bet that it's a free webmail provider such as Hotmail, Yahoo or MyWay. Scammers commonly use those, simply because free webmail accounts afford them not only a cost effective way of scamming unsuspecting victims, but also a very thick veil of anonymity.

2. This is a classic format of a Nigerian scam, that we like to refer to as a "Next of Kin" scam. You can find a very good description of how such a scam is operated here, under paragraph #5:

http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=642#nextok

3. If you read carefully through the text of the email, something will jump out at you. You are being asked to pretend to be someone else's relative in order to collect inheritance. Make no mistake, that is a criminal act in itself, despite the assurances in the email that everything will be done legally.

The email you received is a scam. The best course of action is to just delete the email and not respond to any further correspondence that you receive from those people.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to post them here. :)